Chapter 2. The basic unit of spoken language and the interfaces between prosody, discourse and syntax

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction. In search of a basic unit of spoken language 1
5. Part I
6. Chapter 1. Russian spoken discourse 35
7. Chapter 2. The basic unit of spoken language and the interfaces between prosody, discourse and syntax 77
8. Chapter 3. Prosody and the organization of information in Central Pomo, a California indigenous language 107
9. Chapter 4. Syntactic and prosodic segmentation in spoken French 127
10. Chapter 5. Design and annotation of two-level utterance units in Japanese 155
11. Chapter 6. The pragmatic analysis of speech and its illocutionary classification according to the Language into Act Theory 181
12. Chapter 7. Illocution as a unit of reference for spontaneous speech 221
13. Chapter 8. Narrative discourse segmentation in clinical linguistics 257
14. Chapter 9. Cross-linguistic comparison of automatic detection of speech breaks in read and narrated speech in four languages 285
15. Part II
16. Same texts, different approaches to segmentation 303
17. Chapter 1. Segmentation and analysis of the two English excerpts 309
18. Chapter 2. Analysis of two English spontaneous speech examples with the dependency incremental prosodic structure model 327
19. Chapter 3. Applying criteria of spontaneous Hebrew speech segmentation to English 337
20. Chapter 4. Basic units of speech segmentation 349
21. Chapter 5. Segmentation of the English texts Navy and Hearts with SUU and LUU 359
22. Chapter 6. The Moscow approach to local discourse structure 367
23. Chapter 7. Some notes on the Hearts and Navy excerpts according to the Language into Act Theory 383
24. Chapter 8. Comparing annotations for the prosodic segmentation of spontaneous speech 403
25. Index 433